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posted by martyb on Friday March 01 2019, @07:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the dying-for-a-barrel-of-fun dept.

Police in the United Kingdom are warning about a dangerous new trend of teens lighting plastic garbage cans on fire and inhaling their fumes.

Authorities were prompted to speak out about the bizarre new craze after several "extremely dangerous" incidents were reported in the Greater Manchester area, the Mirror reports.

Dyes used to make the trash cans - more commonly known as wheelie bins in the U.K. - emit a fume when lit on fire that can produce a high when inhaled, much like other solvents such as glue or gas. Fumes from the plastic bins, however, are "highly toxic" and reportedly more dangerous than other solvents.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/uk-police-warn-against-new-teen-trend-of-burning-plastic-trash-cans-inhaling-fumes

Also at The Sun and Manchester Evening News.


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Farkus888 on Friday March 01 2019, @08:43PM (5 children)

    by Farkus888 (5159) on Friday March 01 2019, @08:43PM (#808920)

    Nah, it is just a math problem. About half the worlds population on the internet, skewing young. Say 1/3 under 20 so roughly a billion of them. Maybe one kid dumb enough to huff in a school of 2k, basically no one to you. 1 out of 2k is 500k YouTube videos today. The difference is only that instead of seeing just one Beavis at your school the internet means you see the shenanigans of all 500k Beavi globally.
    This same illusion is why you think violence is rising when it is down. Don't even get me started on generalizing men because of one sexist tweet a day.

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Friday March 01 2019, @08:51PM (3 children)

    by edIII (791) on Friday March 01 2019, @08:51PM (#808925)

    The best part of your post is where you claim that plural of Beavis is Beavi :)

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    • (Score: 2) by Farkus888 on Friday March 01 2019, @09:07PM (1 child)

      by Farkus888 (5159) on Friday March 01 2019, @09:07PM (#808931)

      I thought about writing around it but it made me chuckle so I left it in. As a grouchy old man I intend to use that much more often now that I've thought of it.

      • (Score: 2) by sjames on Friday March 01 2019, @11:19PM

        by sjames (2882) on Friday March 01 2019, @11:19PM (#808985) Journal

        I'm definitely going to be looking for an excuse to use "Beavi" now.

    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Friday March 01 2019, @09:31PM

      by Bot (3902) on Friday March 01 2019, @09:31PM (#808940) Journal

      Beavers?

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday March 01 2019, @11:57PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Friday March 01 2019, @11:57PM (#809003) Homepage Journal

    The "Beavis". One thousand of them is a "KiloBeavi".

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